test.py

import requests
# example api test

import json

apiurl = 'https://localhost:8000'


def test_post_headers_body_json():
    url = apiurl + '/mark'

    # Additional headers.
    headers = {'Content-Type': 'application/json'}

    # Body
    payload = {'user_id': "test", 'flagged_string': "test string", 'category': "stereotyping", 'info': "none",
               'url': "example.com"}

    # convert dict to json by json.dumps() for body data.
    resp = requests.post(url, headers=headers, data=json.dumps(payload, indent=4))

    # Validate response headers and body contents, e.g. status code.
    assert resp.status_code == 200
    resp_body = resp.json()
    assert resp_body['url'] == url

    # print response full body as text
    print(resp.text)